The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

Watched the last part of the "Skins: Pure" story yesterday. There was all manner of possibilities to make it a story, instead it meandered all over the shop like a drunk at three in the morning.

The bit where Cassie by accident & karma becomes a model for one whole shoot in a magazine (and um doesn't get asked to join an agency or anything?), there's the possibility of her past with drugs & anorexia both raising their ugly head again, although her dumping the cocaine out the window at the party makes you think, yeah, this is an older & wiser Cassie that's going to make the most of this.

But no, it's straight back to the whole non-relationship with that Jewish boy (who looked about twelve!), & wanting to jump back into bed with that Israeli paratrooper (yeah, like an ex-IDF para's going to be working in a cafe when there's thousands of armed security services around the world he could be working for & earning heaps of money for instead!). I swear most of that episode seemed to involve Cassie walking away for one reason or another: if it was supposed to be some sort of clever metaphor for her life it was lost on me.

The ending though was totally stupid. Her dad, whom she's been criticising all episode long for being irresponsible since her mum's death, says he's going to Italy with her little brother, & she blurts out an offer to look after him while he does & sorts himself out. Like, WTF? Not only does it fly in the face of all she's said, but didn't she always resent her younger brother whose arrival in the world when she was in her teens saw her marginalised & all but forgotten about by her parents? No, sorry, not buying it. Whatever else Cassie is, she's not an altruist, least of all to someone that's been a source of emotional resentment for the last six years of her life.

Was this part meant to be some sort of "closure" to her past or the old cliche about every woman only feeling truly fulfilled if they're nurturing a child, any child? If so, it's nonsense: unless Cassie plans to kill the kid & feed it to stray dogs, telling her father he'd vanished as one part of an elaborate revenge to make him suffer like she'd suffered thanks to him & the mother that's beyond her. Deep down the darker selfish & psychotic Cassie from Skins 2 is something always waiting to happen. It should have ended on that, not on a cheesy happy families ending.